Last week, a deputation of gentlemen, of the first respectability
in Suffolk, presented an address to the venerable Thotnas Clarkssn; it his residence, Playford Hall. The address was numerously signed by the inhabitants of Ipswich and the neighbourhood ; arid congratulated Mr. Clarkson on the final overthrow of Negro Slavery in the West Indies. It referred to the period when Mr. Clarkson commenced his exertions in the cause of emancipation ; and in allusion to the recent attacks upon that gentleman in the Lift f IVilbetfiwce and the Edie. burgh Review, expressed deep regret that the decline of his life should have been embittered by the necessity of publicly vindicating his cha- racter. In his reply, Mr. Clarkson said he was tillable adequately to express his gratitude. It was peculiarly delightful to one who had spent fifty-three years of his life in the cause of emancipation, to sur-
vive the total abolition of slavery. There was this drawback to his
pleasure—that he had been compelled to expose the unkind treatment of the sons of a dear and revered friend ; but that controversy was over, and the Edinburgh Review had also retracted every charge brought against him.
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